
In 2015, she was to her great delight elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2013-14 she served as President of the British Science Association, which in 2012 made her an Honorary Fellow. In November 2011 she was appointed an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. In December 2011 she was appointed a Director of The National Archives. From 2008 to 2014 she served as Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority – the UK government regulator for assisted reproduction. For the academic year 2007-8 she was seconded to the Royal Society in London as Expert Advisor to its Collections.

She was Patron of the Archives & Records Association and the Orange Prize. She was a Trustee of the V&A Museum for eight years, and was for five years a member of the Council of the Royal Institution in London. She held honorary doctorates of Letters from the University of St Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University and the Open University, and an honorary doctorate of Science from the University of Aberdeen. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge.

Lisa Jardine CBE FRS was Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College London and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, as well as the UCL Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects. Founding Director (1944 - 2015) In Memoriam
